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A history of civilization
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Crane Brinton |
Although this is an old book now, it had been a well-known book for world history written by Harvard scholars.
Scholarly accepted well and widely traslated, even in Korean, it proved itself anywher… |
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The Mental floss history of the world
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Erik Sass |
History is . . . (a) more or less bunk.(b) a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.(c) as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.Match your answers:(1) Stephen Daedalus of… |
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Underworld
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Graham Hancock |
From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hid… |
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The Oxford history of the classical world
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John Boardman,Jasper Griffin,Oswyn Murray |
Provides a historical framework of the Greco-Roman world focusing on the political and social history, literature, philosophy, the arts, etc. |
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The order of things
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Michel Foucault |
When one defines ""order"" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He… |
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La civilización del espectáculo
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
The author puts forth a hard and somber interpretation of our times. Our civilization has turned into entertainment, gossip, enjoyment, and has adopted a carefree, devil-may-care attitude, ignoring w… |
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Square and the Tower
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Niall Ferguson |
A "recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a struggle between old power hierarchies and new social networks"--Dust jacket. |
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Water
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Steven Solomon |
"A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher. |
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Drugged
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Richard J. Miller |
Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every cul… |
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Why did the chicken cross the world?
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Andrew Lawler |
"From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe--the ch… |
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A million years in a day
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Greg Jenner |
"Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm … |
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Realisation
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Julian Spalding |
JULIAN SPALDING'S books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize) and The Best Art You've Never Seen. He was formerly Director of Ar… |
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The world's great civilizations
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Sullivan, Robert |
One looks at the pyramids, particularly at tile Great Pyramid and wonders: Who did that? How many did it take? One looks at Stonehenge and wonders: Who? Why? The answers to these and many other quest… |
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Rupes Nigra
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Alexander Wolfheze |
Rupes Nigra provides an Archaeo-Futurist diagnosis of the impending - rather ongoing - Downfall of the West. Its twelve essays 'count down' from large to small: from 'hard' geopolitics, through 'perm… |
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Collapse
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Jared Diamond,Ricardo García Pérez |
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much… |
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Das 15. Jahrhundert
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Mathias Herweg,Günter Frank,Franz Fuchs |
Das 15. Jahrhundert wird gemeinhin als Inkubationszeit betrachtet, als eine Ära wichtiger Umbrüche und Innovationen, die vor 1500 eintraten, ihre Wirkung allerdings erst im folgenden Jahrhundert zur … |
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Nervous acts
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G. S. Rousseau |
"Between 1965 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of the nervous system in the rise of literature and sensibility that altered the landscape of eighteenth-centur… |
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People become civilized
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Trevor Cairns |
Traces the development of civilization from the first appearance of man-like creatures to the death of Alexander the Great. |
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The Rise of the West
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William Hardy McNeill |
One of the best world histories ever written. Read the footnotes, he raises some really good points their. |
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The world of tomorrow
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Kenneth K. Goldstein |
Speculates about life in 2069 when man has learned to use the oceans, developed new sources of power for transportation and space exploration, and explored new methods in health and medicine, educati… |
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